Legal Services Act 2007 And The Impact

Concepts of ‘accessing’ and ‘achieving’ justice and their definitions are often debated and contested. Achieving and accessing justice may be explained through a segregation of groups. For users of the justice system, access refers to the capacity to effectively utilise the justice system, whereas for the general public access to justice refers to the capacity to obtain appropriate information to evaluate the performance of the legal system and ways in which it operates on their behalf (Martin, 2014). These definitions reveal that both users of the courts and the general public should be very much aware of barriers to its access,

Merit –compare and contrast the role of judges ,lawyers and lay people within the English courts.

Together these legislations form the fundamental rights and freedom of an individual. These affect the rights of every day life of an individual including what they can say and do, their beliefs, right not to be tortured and right for a fair trial. These rights have limits to ensure that other peoples rights are

In this task I shall compare and contrast the roles and functions of judges, lawyers and lay people in the English legal courts.

The law should on all occasions strive to not exist as a separate sanctity to society. As much as possible, governments and judicial bodies should aim to include the public in the creation, maintenance and amendment of the law. The community consultation process of law reform is a vital cornerstone to societal inclusion in the lawmaking process. It allows the people living through the law reform experience to share their own insight and opinion, allowing major societal influence in the creation of legislation and other legal principles. The current law reform environment does allow some hinderance to the consultation process, through the overcomplicating of documents, or time restraints, however with minor adjustment, this system

Nowadays, hiring a lawyer in UK and Wales can be quite expensive. A trainee solicitor in Great Britain hourly rate can start from a hundred and eleven pounds per hour and ranges from this to a first grade solicitor in London who would charge four hundred and nine pounds per hour . It is obvious that not everyone can afford the price of justice. Legal funding is vital as this can give a chance to people that are of lesser means, to review their case. There are various types of legal funding that I will examine in my essay for example, legal aid, private funding, conditional fee agreements, damages-based agreements and pro-bono. However, there are some ethical complications related to how these types of funding is used. Are they really used wisely and fairly based on their scope? I am going to consider the advantages and disadvantages of the various types, in order to come to a conclusion. On the other hand, there are many people claiming that technological innovations would be a very good way to compensate for lack of funding. Technological innovations such as, robot lawyer Lisa , Lexis Nexis chatbot and kiosks.

The Law Society had to determine the context specifics of the regulation in Ontario’s legal profession as well as the LSUC’s historical role in being the regulator. In this case, the LSUC had the interest of statutory public mandate. Hence, LSUC had the unique qualification to determine how the public interest would get advanced by considering TWU’s application impact to Ontario’s legal profession and the TWU’s legal profession to serve the community.

Chapter Nine has a strong relationship with the HRS in that they both describe the roles and powers of legal practitioners. The chapter can be summarized as a sociolegal study on the exercise and source of professional power as wielded by Lawyers and adjacent practitioners of law. When taken in totality, this chapter presents its findings in such a way that when “read together these studies illuminate the multiple dimensions of professional power” (Rostain, 2008, p 147). Consequently there is a heavy focus upon how lawyer’s ideologies

The legal sector in the United States is changing along with many other industries. The law profession itself has become more separated from the “mega” law firms and the small locally owned ones; partnerships have become much more

Legal Aid and Advice Act 1949 was the beginning of legal aid, this is the access to assistance to fight for justice for the ones that cannot afford legal representation and in need of protection. The state pays the legal professions which are the solicitors and barristers to ensure the right to a fair trial and equality before the law is not breached. In 2012, legal aid cut was formed where the government decided that there should be

Thru past experiences with you and your interesting attitude to Legal matters , We have decided it is better in the interests of seeking Law applied to deal direct with your Solicitor and cost effective

Below is a description of how a legal factor may affect the activities of Croydon Health Services NHS:

In the case R v Brown[2015] EWCA Criminal 1328 it was appropriate, in an extremely narrow band of cases and as an additional common law exception to the inviolable nature of legal professional privilege, to extend the principle in R v Cox (Richard Cobden) (1884) 14 Q.B.D. 153 (Cox v Railton) by imposing a requirement that particular individuals could be present at client/lawyer discussions if there was a real possibility that the discussions would be misused in a way amounting to abuse of the privilege that justified interference.

As a generalist telephone adviser within the organisation I was called upon to provide advice to customers on a wide variety of general issues using information provided in the knowledge base system set up by Citizens Advice Direct in a timely and professional manner. This role allows me to provide firsthand support and advice to citizens, which includes providing customers with information on their legal rights, duties and options which they may want to consider in order to seek to resolve their justiciable problems.

Critically assess the different sources and characteristics of the English Legal System. To what extents have external influences affected its development.